Kaspersky Lab Promises New Backup Tool To Help Unhappy Social Media Users Quit (kaspersky.com)

Kaspersky Lab surveyed 16,750 people and concluded that often negative experiences on social experience overpower their positive effects -- and they're doing something about it. JustAnotherOldGuy pointed us to their latest announcement. 59% have felt unhappy when they have seen friends' posts from a party they were not invited to, and 45% revealed that their friends' happy holiday pictures have had a negative influence on them. Furthermore, 37% also admitted that looking at past happy posts of their own can leave them with the feeling that their own past was better than their present life. Previous research has also demonstrated peoples' frustration with social media as 78% admitted that they have considered leaving social networks altogether. The only thing that makes people stay on social media is the fear of losing their digital memories, such as photos, and contacts with their friends.

To help people decide more freely if they want to stay in social media or leave without losing their digital memories, Kaspersky Lab is developing a new app -- FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want, without losing what belongs to them -- their digital lives.
The FFForget app will be released in 2017, but there's already a web page where you can sign up for early access. Kaspersky plans to monetize this by creating both a free version of the app -- limited to one social network -- and a $1.99-per-month version which automatically backs up social content from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Instagram in real-time with a fancier interface and more powerful encryption.

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Lol, not a problem

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"FFForget will allow people to back up all of their memories from the social networks they use and keep them in a safe, encrypted memory container and will give people the freedom to leave any network whenever they want..."

No problem- I avoided all this stress by not having a Facebook account, or Instacrap, Pinterest, etc etc etc.

I host my own pics on my own servers, so I miss out on all the angst and data-mining.

"holiday pictures"

[Anonymous Coward]

This one for sure. I'm white and a programmer that lives in Seattle so the vacation inequality problem is huge. I haven't had more than a single day off at a time in nearly twenty years. My Asian friends all get two or more weeks contiguous off each year. Yes, I understand flying to India is expensive and time-consuming so you need to spend as much time as you can there, but it's ridiculous that this industry tolerates that inequality. My last vacation was when I worked at Microsoft in 1997 and went to Mexico for a week. I got several phone calls a day. It suck when, for example, eating dinner and having the hotel manager track me down to take a phone call. I quit Microsoft after I had taken a Friday off to fly home for my mother's funeral and then was demanded to be back at work on the following Monday. I didn't really have any choice in the matter since I had to settle everything and sell her house. The one positive thing was that I got unemployment anyway since I found a sympathetic employee at the Washington state Employment Security Department. When you get screwed bad enough for a normally uncaring bureaucrat to sympathize with you, it's pretty bad.